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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    I lived in Evans and Suttle too.

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    My daughter will be a freshman this year and the cost of her dorm room and meal ticket is 4900 bucks a semester.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Dorm life builds character...
    Especially in Old Main back when. Room, board, and tuition was $650 for my freshman year, 1955. All meals in cafeteria.

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    Quote Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg34 View Post
    I was in Hightower my freshman year. Not too sure about the great experience part, but I agree I never wanted to do it again.
    The old vertical ghetto, where they crammed everyone in during summer for the "experience"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Dorm life builds character...
    I can't imagine not having lived in the dorms freshman year.....one of the best years of my life.

    That said, I roomed with a friend from high school. I can't imagine going pot luck and getting a shitty roommate....that would likely ruin the whole experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg34 View Post
    I was in Hightower my freshman year. Not too sure about the great experience part, but I agree I never wanted to do it again.
    Ha ha Vegas I was in Hightower 107 in 1973 for a semester, and I agree with your sentiments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sandwolf View Post
    I can't imagine not having lived in the dorms freshman year.....one of the best years of my life.

    That said, I roomed with a friend from high school. I can't imagine going pot luck and getting a shitty roommate....that would likely ruin the whole experience.
    If you don't have a friend to room with, they have match.com type app the school uses that the kids can sign up for. You put in like/dislike info and it matches you with similar interests. My daughter found her roommate that way - I guess we will find out in about a week how it works.

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    I was in Hamlin; the biggest dump in the academic world. RIP, Hamlin.

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    I was in Duggar my freshman year. Great year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by somebodyshotmypaw View Post
    I was in Duggar my freshman year. Great year.
    Me too 1966-1967. My year was great although my grades were not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Martianlander View Post
    Me too 1966-1967. My year was great although my grades were not.
    I was in Critz at the same time.

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    I live 4.5 miles from MSU -- I have no intention of my grand daughter ever living in a dorm..... #HAILSTATE......

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    Quote Originally Posted by RocketDawg View Post
    I was in Critz at the same time.
    Critz for me in '71. After my roommate dropped out after one semester (partying was a GPA killer) I moved off campus and stayed in trailers or apartments except one semester in Hamlin ( yes, it was a dump). Met some cool guys in the dorms but I loved the free style of living off campus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dolphus Raymond View Post
    I was in Hamlin; the biggest dump in the academic world. RIP, Hamlin.
    Besides being the biggest dump, wasn't Hamlin the dorm they called the UN? Thinking it was just north of Sessums on the corner of Lee Blvd and the road that runs by Sessums.

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    Sessums then Suttle and finally Evans for me. Took the "pot luck" roommate freshman year and lucked up with a guy from California. Quite the experience and it turned out great. Met some life long friends that freshman year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
    If you don't have a friend to room with, they have match.com type app the school uses that the kids can sign up for. You put in like/dislike info and it matches you with similar interests. My daughter found her roommate that way - I guess we will find out in about a week how it works.
    I guess I should have figured that there would be something like that now. That sounds like a great solution.

    And just a side story about going pot luck. My oldest brother was a freshman at State in '94 and he went pot luck.....his roommate was a complete weirdo and got caught with a pipe bomb in his backpack while on campus which resulted in my brother being interrogated by the FBI.

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    Quote Originally Posted by InTheIttaBenaHotSun View Post
    Besides being the biggest dump, wasn't Hamlin the dorm they called the UN? Thinking it was just north of Sessums on the corner of Lee Blvd and the road that runs by Sessums.
    Yea, Hamlin was north of Sessums on Barr Avenue, then the 4 freshmen dorms and then Shuttle. All but Critz is gone today. Back in the day, there was no air conditioning in the freshmen dorms and it was hot as hell. Freshmen were happy to move up to Hamlin & Shuttle just because of the AC (although the buildings used the old water cooler systems it was a lot cooler than the freshmen dorms.

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    I lived in Hull freshman year. It was really a great experience. Ate most of my meals at Perry and there was never a lack of someone to walk over with.
    Leicester Till I Die

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    Quote Originally Posted by sandwolf View Post
    I guess I should have figured that there would be something like that now. That sounds like a great solution.

    And just a side story about going pot luck. My oldest brother was a freshman at State in '94 and he went pot luck.....his roommate was a complete weirdo and got caught with a pipe bomb in his backpack while on campus which resulted in my brother being interrogated by the FBI.
    I was there then and remember hearing rumor of it. I was a Frosh in '91, lived in Sessums with one of the few other Cobb Co., GA guys. It was freaking Animal House. Lived in a boomerang first half of Soph year then moved to frat house for second half. My first 2 years I majored in party with a 2.2.

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